Depression
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It takes up so much of your time and energy, and silence about it, it really does make the
depression
worse.
But if you say that you have depression, and standing on your head for 20 minutes every day makes you feel better, then it's worked, because
depression
is an illness of how you feel, and if you feel better, then you are effectively not depressed anymore.
They didn't externalize the
depression
as an invasive spirit.
Frank Russakoff had the worst
depression
perhaps that I've ever seen in a man.
I was struck by the fact that
depression
is broadly perceived to be a modern, Western, middle-class thing, and I went to look at how it operated in a variety of other contexts, and one of the things I was most interested in was
depression
among the indigent.
And so I went out to try to look at what was being done for poor people with
depression.
And what I discovered is that poor people are mostly not being treated for
depression.
Depression
is the result of a genetic vulnerability, which is presumably evenly distributed in the population, and triggering circumstances, which are likely to be more severe for people who are impoverished.
I must have depression."
And so we have an epidemic in this country of
depression
among impoverished people that's not being picked up and that's not being treated and that's not being addressed, and it's a tragedy of a grand order.
And so I found an academic who was doing a research project in slums outside of D.C., where she picked up women who had come in for other health problems and diagnosed them with depression, and then provided six months of the experimental protocol.
I was really moved by these experiences, and I decided that I wanted to write about them not only in a book I was working on, but also in an article, and I got a commission from The New York Times Magazine to write about
depression
among the indigent.
There is this false moral imperative that seems to be all around us, that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural.
People then say, "But isn't
depression
part of what people are supposed to experience?
Didn't we evolve to have
depression?
And major
depression
is something that happens when that system gets broken.
It's a strange poverty of the English language, and indeed of many other languages, that we use this same word, depression, to describe how a kid feels when it rains on his birthday, and to describe how somebody feels the minute before they commit suicide.
How did those people who have better lives even with bigger
depression
manage to get through?
Shutting out the
depression
strengthens it.
Those who can tolerate their
depression
are the ones who achieve resilience.
Valuing one's
depression
does not prevent a relapse, but it may make the prospect of relapse and even relapse itself easier to tolerate.
The question is not so much of finding great meaning and deciding your
depression
has been very meaningful.
I have learned in my own
depression
how big an emotion can be, how it can be more real than facts, and I have found that that experience has allowed me to experience positive emotion in a more intense and more focused way.
The opposite of
depression
is not happiness, but vitality, and these days, my life is vital, even on the days when I'm sad.
I think that while I hated being depressed and would hate to be depressed again, I've found a way to love my
depression.
If you have a bout of depression, you'll go to the right side.
My grandmother had
depression.
A deep, life-altering depression, from which she never recovered.
And back then, so little was known about
depression.
Today, we know that women are 70 percent more likely to experience
depression
over their lifetimes compared with men.
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